Related links

People:

Techniques and Technologies:

Glossary

Glossary:

Glossary: radiation dose calculator

No description.

Glossary: cancer

Any cancerous tumour. It arises from the abnormal and uncontrolled division of cells which then invade and destroy the surrounding tissues. Cancer cells spread and can form secondary tumours some distance from the original.

Glossary: radiation therapy

A type of medical treatment that uses high energy radiation such as X-rays.

Glossary: radiation

Transmission of any type of energy by means of rays, waves or as mobile sub-atomic particles (electrons, neutrons and protons).